Crocker Snow Jr is a former director of the Edward R. Murrow Center for Public Diplomacy at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, a veteran American journalist and the author of Muskeget: Raw, Restless Relentless Island.

His father, Crocker Snow, helped inaugurate commercial air travel in New England and oversaw civil aviation in Massachusetts. As an officer in the Army Air Forces in World War II, Snow (Sr.) directed the ferrying of aircraft from the United States to Britain and flew more than 20 bombing missions in the Pacific.